Medicare fix would push health care into the red - Yahoo! Finance

IT IS A SHELL GAME! If you or I did this kind of accounting we would be destroyed!!!!

Medicare fix would push health care into the red - Yahoo! Finance:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congressional budget scorekeepers say a Medicare fix that Democrats included in earlier versions of their health care bill would push it into the red.

The Congressional Budget Office said Friday that rolling back a programmed cut in Medicare fees to doctors would cost $208 billion over 10 years. If added back to the health care overhaul bill, it would wipe out all the deficit reduction, leaving the legislation $59 billion in the red."